The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-20
CITY AFFAIRS.
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NOu idu bttltE kO uuu iOOk lnhO IL, unh StN
whether they have got a permit or not. |
went down to the Kansas City road the other
day, TO see what they were doing, and found
they had three or four tracks laid down
there. Now, where's the police who ought
to have been down there? The company
hadn't a permit from the engineer, and they
hadn't a permit from the city council TO do
it-closing up two or three streets without a
permit. There was an order passed by the
council that the company should have an
electric light put up, out on Rayburn ave-
nue., in fifteen days. Now they have gone
over from Coles mill to Milburn's, as a kind
OF track road. All right; we ave n big law
suit there, and the city will gain II, as they
do all their suits. The company claim II as
its own. l want 10 call your attention TO
Rayburn avenue. They have got every
thing jammed up there so you can't
get by. 1t Is the same way at
Mr.. Burke's yard. We don't want TO ham
per railroads; all we want is to make them
do Just they say in the contracts. The dunn
my line needs a good deal of working ON;
they have a good deal TO do yet. The street
railroads have been and are making an effort
to put their tracks in better condition. They
paved Lauderdale, and part of Bcale, and
part of Vance, but | would rather have the old
street than Vance as it Is now. l think they
are trying to make an honest effort to i'm
prove their tracks. | hope you will see all
the places not yet worked on, and have them
repaired, especially those tracks.
"Fire-crackors-We have in this city this
morning 1861 900 bales Of cotton. II is stored
in warehouses, In private houses, in the
streets, and upon vacant lots. We have lost
10000 bales OF cotton by fire In this city, ]
don know that our own security companies
will have 10 pay this loss. They had one
loss on one shed, and they will not be able
TO pay a dividend IN three years. This big
fire up here-wc don't know who Is going "a
sustain that loss. But these companies feel
uneasy about this. It's got so thai the in.
suranc companies will not insure large
bodies OF cotton TO the same extent that they
did before that. Now, gentlemen, this Sot-
ton stored on the sidewalks, that lies outside
Of the regular places during one night,
is against the law. Who made this
law? The council made IL. When they
made IL who did they consult? They con.
suited and passed exactly the law that the
merchants and cotton factors desired. Now,
II you go down and notify one of those fac,
tors-and ] am one Of them, I know all
about the cotton business-they will tell you
that II Is n hardship, they can't do II. When
n glass Is full you can't put any more water
In IL. Just tell him hat the law Is exactly
as they had IL passed. Gentlemen, WI can
store all this cotton. IL Is Just like q good
many other things that stand upon the
statute books. But times arrive when YOU
can't enforce them right up to the notch.
You can, however, go around and examine
all this cotton and see that II Is up ON skids
See that IL is covered with tarpaulins, and
we will put up with this thing for about
three months longer. We certainly will
have TO have more storage room here, fol
this cotton, by being stored out OF doors
damages us as a cotton market, and these
factors will have 10 make some other ar
rangements. i wish, chief, you would pub
lish the ordinance relative TO iirc-crackcrs and
extend IL 10 -four months. l make this an.
nouncemont 80 that parties who deal in
these pyrotechnics may know that they can
be used, and they won't be sold. 1 wan
people arrested; little boys or anybody else,
who use lire-crackers. Give this cotton bust
ness your attention. II Is what we live on,
and we must aid these merchants. When.
ever you see cotton in a damaged condition,
in water, not on Axe skids aud tarpaulins
over II, You may know that IL is not quite
right. You understand the fire ordinance
no iire-crackes here. II will do very well
for the JackSonian club 10 receive q man
with, but they won't do II every day.
SUNDAY Work and Business on Sunday
think you are running kind OF loose on that
gentlemen. Notify these people that they
tlNtk NN w uAAN VIA nfAhNA VII GAllAANls VII
here on the corner OF MARSHALL avenue there
are two or three men who keep their door
wide open. Go down Main street and you
will see all Of the cigar stores wide open. |
don't believe Chat anybody ever made dol
lar on Sunday. | have been told that thes,
congresses worked on Sunday. I've goI
stock in that concern, but II Is all hypothccatet
for borrowed money. j don't believe thai
they make anything by running on Sunday
| don't believe anybody does.
Migrants and Tmmps-0f whom you al
ways have many. Bring these gentlemen In
There's another law that we want 20 hay,
passed, aud / think the council will pass Il
without n dissenting voice. That Is, 10 pre-
vent lettering. There are hundreds Of mer
you can't convict OF yagrancy, but when ",
get this ordinance on lettering we will &c
them. There Is too much Of this l%oiterinI
around here. You can 80 IN any buSinss
house or barber shop, aud you will find III
teen or twenty there, Just lettering pbou
them, who never bought q dollars worth IL
them in their lives.
Constructing Observation-Disclosures OF
Front row you will find that they have beef
taking all tho sidewalk. Let them have al
Of II except ten feet. i can point you 10
store on Main street where I reckon Their
have been $50 barrels OF -four piled out OF
the sidewalk. Now, when I was in ia
grocery business, I used b. haul out n lot o
barrels and make out that ! was shippinl
them away down here 10 Como or som,
other place. | would put them on the side
walk aud mark them Diamond X, but SOM
Of the men passing there would write dow
10 Como Ia see where all that Diamond y
-four was going 10, and the ruse wa ex
posed.
"Garlagc and the Board Of Hcalth-Gen
tlemcn, you know the board Of health i m!
pet, or ! mean this; Anything that Is con
duoivc "a the health Of this city. ! take mor
interest In than anything else about II
The budget we made for the last Legislator
didn't quite pan out enough, but va hay
been running II through. IL Is because IN
city has increased NO rapidly; IL has eS
tended 20 much that We had 10 put on al
ditiOnal carts and additional mon TO run |
aud keep tho city anything like clean. Now
the last two or three weeks IL hasn't beet
kept ~ clean a. 10 ought 10 have been. II
January w will open up; the ist day O
January We will set the whole machinery a
WORK, aud clean this town with the chat
gang. squire TO Squire Powell bee
keeping n pretty good gnngg'
Squire Powell could have had morC
The chain gang has been reduced.
"Thc dirt force, aud the engineers force
and the force Of the board o. health, We vii
put them all 20 work a. clean this tow M
You sec, the money will be coming Ia e.
~. The privilege license, amounting
about $1,000, will he coming In 30 Us BY III
10Th Of January. We want 10 have all hi
$4,000 collected frum everybody liable "a
H. In this why we will have the none
aud start the ball. The health OF this cit
has Ia he preserved under every circun
stance.
'The now gas works Is being introduced O
the lower end of town. Their contract nay
that every ditch IL TO be puddlcd an
tampcd.
water works-The present water work